Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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